Reports: Cops catch felon in Central District with gun wrapped in Seahawks jersey

Updated 3:30 pm, Thursday, September 3, 2015

Seattle police found a felon Wednesday carrying a loaded handgun wrapped in a Seahawks jersey bearing the name of a safety. Hmm.

Seattle police found a felon Wednesday carrying a loaded handgun wrapped in a Seahawks jersey bearing the name of a safety. Hmm.

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Seattle police recovered this gun from a felon trying to run from cops Wednesday afternoon in the Central District. They found it in the 24-year-old's backpack, wrapped in a Seahawks jersey.

Seattle police recovered this gun from a felon trying to run from cops Wednesday afternoon in the Central District. They found it in the 24-year-old's backpack, wrapped in a Seahawks jersey.

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Reports: Cops catch felon in Central District with gun wrapped in Seahawks jersey

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Seattle police arrested a 24-year-old felon in the Central District on Wednesday, whereupon they found he was carrying a handgun wrapped in a Seahawks jersey.

Gang Unit detectives were patrolling about 4:30 p.m. near 25th Avenue and East Jefferson Street when they spotted a man, believed to have several warrants for his arrest, walking down the street, Seattle police reports say.

When the detectives tried to stop him, he ran, reports indicate.

Officers chased after the man on foot and in patrol cars until they caught up to him at 26th avenue and East Columbia Street.

Officers detained the man and searched his backpack, only to find a loaded handgun wrapped in a Seahawks jersey, reports say. Seattle police were coy about what kind of jersey it was, only saying it was emblazoned with "the name of one of the team's safeties."

As a felon, the man is prohibited from possessing firearms.

Police booked the man into King County Jail for illegal firearm possession and three warrants for robbery, weapons violations and Department of Corrections violations.